Social Anxiety

@ricebun

that sounds like me too. I know. It's hard to unwind. Sometimes the mind overthink. Small things become so big and big things become ugly monster. Even when we think we are right, we still feel so wrong.

Usually I use quotes to help me process things like these:

• Worry does not take away tomorrow trouble, but today's peace
• If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it
• Life is too long to wait and too short to worry
• Worry is like rocking a chair, it give you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere
• I just give myself permission to suck...this is hugely liberating
• Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

You can find your own or write your own. Maybe they might help you.

I feel awkward a lot around people. I need to build confidence. Sometimes I would turn red and become sweaty around people and it just makes me feel worse. That doesn't happen all the time but sometimes. I worked with a girl who turned red a lot and a coworker would make fun of her for turning red which was not nice. I worry about what to say. About what I'm saying sounds stupid or if someone is talking to me and I don't understand what they are saying and it makes me feel stupid. If I misunderstand what something is being said, I get very embarrassed. Sometimes my body gets shaky.

I just showed a video to my dad and it wasn't the right video and I almost broke down into tears in the middle of it, though he liked it and then I showed him the right one but I feel so anxious now...